Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 115
She could not go with them, because she had been suffering from headache ever since the new appointment, no doubt from eating too much.
Who acts: crow, doubt · What happens: not go, suffer, eat · To what, where: headache
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, doubt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffering | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 suffering | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 suffering | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffering | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 suffering | aux |
| 12 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 headache | case |
| 14 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffering | obl |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 suffering | advmod |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 19 appointment | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 appointment | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 appointment | amod |
| 19 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffering | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 doubt | punct |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 doubt | det |
| 22 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appointment | appos |
| 23 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 eating | mark |
| 24 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 doubt | acl |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 eating | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | could | crow | with wings = wing | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | suffer | past · perfect · progressive | crow | headache | since the new appointment; ever | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | eat | gerund | no doubt not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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